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To: Eric who wrote (51807)	4/19/2001 7:39:36 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

"video bandwidth on the net" is going to require the entertainment industry to fully buy into the idea, they're the ones with deep enough pockets and the content. I don't see them moving too fast as long as they can continue to milk media like DVDs, etc, and with what has taken place with Napster. And I don't envisage what we really would like to see, real general purpose bandwidth, at all, since the last thing the film/music industry wants in the hands of the average comsumer is the ability to freely ship around DVDs worth of HDTV video. It would be too disruptive, just look at the flack over DeCSS, which is a non-problem by comparison. It's going to be a really long wait, and it won't primarily be a matter of cost savings in the end, it'll have to do with some vague "quality of life", convenience, etc.